India is on track to overtake the UK to become the world’s fifth-largest economy in 2018, according to data and forecasts from the IMF. Soon it will trail only Germany and the ‘big three’ – the US, China and Japan. However, the Indian banking system is gasping for breath with...

Islamic Development Bank exploring joint opportunities with other multilateral development banks to invest in India’s infrastructure sector
Tue, Jun 26 2018
Utpal Bhaskar
Mumbai: Islamic Development Bank Group, one of the largest lenders to Muslim countries, is interested in exploring joint...

Trying to bring Islamic banking to India
Though Muslims are a minority in India and are generally less affluent than Hindus, in sheer numbers they make India the second largest Muslim nation in the world. Cumulatively, their investment power is tremendous and rep...

Islamic finance pioneers and like-minded community leaders in India have come together to introduce an alternative product to formal takaful, which doesn’t exist in the country.
A not-for-profit health assurance scheme, called Uplift Mutuals Biradaree, started in April this year at two of M...

By HABEEB RAHMAN CP
The International Zakat Conference, organised by Baithuzzakath Kerala, concludes in Cochin with the new hope for the effective zakat management in the country. More than 250 high-profile delegates from various parts of the country and other nations participated in the conference...

Dr. Rahmatullah Abdul Ahad dwells upon how Zakat can be a source of social upliftment and economic empowerment.
Poverty, which indicates the absence of material means, is rampant in all the states of India irrespective of caste and clan wise composition of the society. The consequence is sufferings...